Mary Degallo wrote: > --------------------------------------- > FILENAME known at RunTime > FILENAME is NOT known at COMPILE time. > --------------------------------------- > C, C++, Java provide a file name that can be specified at RunTime. > Where as the way the FD and File Sections in COBOL are, > we have to specify the file name at COMPILE time. > We have to design our applications around this "feature/limitation". > Has anybody, worked around this, using some other "tricks". > JCL is one way, but we donot want to get into JCL stuff. > How does one do it in a more elegant way? > I assume that your filename question refers to the HP3000 also, and I remember being *appalled* that HP would not allow an identifier in the assign-to clause of the select statement. As I recall (and this goes back a while) one is forced to resort to an external OS variable which can be set before execution via UDC (what most would call a macro) and referenced thru special-names or something of the sort. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *